Sport: Marathon

A crowd of 75,000 persons, ranked along Philadelphia streets, stood on
tiptoes and strained eyes to catch a glimpse of a 38-year-old
typesetter running along the pavement. He had run 26 miles and more
that day, and had beaten by long margin a field of 62 other
road-pounders. He was winning the cruelest of all races, wherein strong
heart and mickle courage are the fundamental prerequisites the
Marathon. And trailing behind the winner Clarence De Mar jogged
blister-footed Olympic champion Albin Stenroos, Finn, who led De Mar by
two places in the 1924...